With her black hair lying against her pale white face, she looked like a queen who dwelled within a secluded, innermost palace, behind layer upon layer of thick curtains.

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The wallpaper would have looked ordinary against white, whereas the black trim lends the bookcases some punch and a bit of glory.

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The streets are frozen in white, the iron lamplights jet black against the stonework.

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The black and white footage shows officers slamming the men against the wall of the home before cuffing them.

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Mr Sharpton was in danger of being marginalised even amongst New York's black community after he lost a 1998 defamation suit against a white prosecutor whom, ten years earlier, he had accused of raping Tawana Brawley, a young black girl.

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He led the struggle against white-minority rule before being elected the first black president in democratic elections in 1994.

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As I arrived, seagulls were funnelling over the beach, stark white against the dark-forested slopes of Squilax (Black Bear) Mountain.

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Doreen Lawrence says black students are less likely to get top degrees than white students and that qualifications do not protect against racism.

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